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Thread: What is your earworm today?
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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I keep replaying a couple of lines from 'Puppet on a String' by Sandy Shaw in my head. I have no idea why - I haven't heard it in years. maybe it's because she was on Mastermind last night.
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What is your earworm today?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, baby give it up, give it up, baby give it up.
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Earwig
Pincered Beastie
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I got "50 words for snow" by Kate Bush for Christmas, and have had bits from the song "Wild Man" stuck in my head for days.
Only Kate Bush could make these lines an earworm:
"While crossing the Lhakpa-La something jumped down from the rock
In the remote Garo Hills by Dipu Marak we found footprints in the snow."
I want to be Kate Bush when I grow up. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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A facebook copycat thing at the moment is googling the number 1 from the week you were born. My current earworm is the result of clicking on the wrong link... and now I'm stuck with the first line of "needles and pins". I can't even remember how it goes on from there, so it's even more irritating than your standard earworm.
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Clarence
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''Plane Crash" by Liam Finn (if only because he managed to include a reference to a pohutakawa)
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Bob Two-Owls
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The Marriage of Figaro, I watched Trading Places last night for a bit of 80s nostalgia (and some JLC boobage of course).
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Lou Reed and Metallica - Iced Honey.
The end bit with James Hetfield singing, "See if the ice will melt for you," whilst Reed sings, "Iced honey" has been stuck for the last two days.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Got along without you babe before I met you,
Gonna get along without you now...
Doesn't help that I wrote my own third and fourth lines to the song, where 'cow' rhymes with 'now.'
The original simply repeats the first two lines endlessly, kinda like a praise song.
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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The Merry Widow.
Its actually rather nice
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Sparrow
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Super Trouper - probably because of watching (or rather, being in the same room with) Mamma Mia on the TV the other day.
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infinite_monkey
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I've had Dar Williams' Iowa stuck in my head all week, thanks to the ceaseless coverage of the Iowa caucuses.
Fortunately, it's a brilliant song.
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snowgoose
Silly goose
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Tom Lehrer's So Long, Mom, I'm Off To Drop the Bomb.
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Save a Siamese!
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lilBuddha
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Mr. Hurricane by Beast.
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Kitten
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I've had 'Set fire to the Third Bar' by Snow Patrol going round in my head all week, following my Son & his fiancee working on their wedding play list.
Fortunately, I love this song.
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Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
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Graven Image
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"I want to walk as a child of the light, I want to follow Jesus."
It has been there for about a week now. No idea what started it. Nice song, but I am getting a bit tired of it.
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South Coast Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by Kitten:
I've had 'Set fire to the Third Bar' by Snow Patrol going round in my head all week...
Ooh, like it! My earworm for the last couple of days has been Hanging on the Telephone by Blondie. They don't make pop music like that these days... /Old git
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Poppy
Ship's dancing cat
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Balkan folk song 'Opinca' which has very unusual rhythms now firmly stuck in my head. here it is on youtube
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Marv, thank you for handing yours off to me.
quote:
Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Got along without you babe before I met you,
Gonna get along without you now...
Dude, my mom goes around humming this one all the time!
[ 06. January 2012, 18:32: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Meg the Red
Shipmate
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This club can't even handle me right now . . .
From this version, specifically the crescendo at 1:39, which is beyond awesome, even when it turns into an earworm.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I've been listening (and listening and listening) to Alan Pote's "Here I Am, Lord" in my poor head for days. It's not even the current choir singing, but one from about eighteen years ago.
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Starbug
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Christmas songs. This morning on the way to work it was Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.
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Alex Cockell
Ship’s penguin
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Lots of earworms tonight from BBC4, starting at 9pm... with TOTP 1977 starting up...
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nickel
Shipmate
# 8363
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The Slackers "You Must Be Good" ... for that you can sleep at night; You must be good, for that your momma can hold you tight; And you can't be bad (be bad), or the devil will git ya! So you must be good, you must be good, don't let'em trick ya"
I have no idea why it popped into my head -- I haven't done anything wrong lately!
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Mili
Shipmate
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I've got about one line and a bit of instrumental (possible on a glockenspiel) from Gotye's "Somebody that I used to Know" stuck in my head. And yes the line is "somebody that I used to know". I think it's because a top 100 countdown of Australian 2012 hits was on TV at the party I attended NYE and this was number one. I hadn't even heard it before that.
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LucyP
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At work I regularly encounter people with the Chinese surname "Lai" -most recently yesterday.
Every time, I get the chorus from Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" playing in my head for the next couple of days.
I pronounce the surname "Ly" the same way as "Lai", but so far the 2 letter spelling never seems to have set off the earworm!
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PD
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I had Ravel's fecking 'Bolero' on the loop in my head this morning and then folks were stupid enough to ask me why I am in a fecking lousy mood. Three hours of that would distroy anyone's attempts at optimism.
I finally got rid of Ravel about noon and got the Geogeghan Sisters 'The Siege of Wexford' instead, which was an improvement but did nothing to lift my mood. The Chieftain's 'Nelson's Pillar' or 'Johnson's Motor Car' might have, but I got a song about a massacre instead. Oh well!
PD
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Darkwing
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Tristan, by Failotron - a celebratory chiptune anthem.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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'In the Lord I'll be ever thankful' - a Taize chant which we are singing on Sunday and therefore rehearsed on Friday evening. It's one of those tunes which goes roundandroundandroundandround. But in my version, it's the repetitive alto line as that's the one I had to learn.
If something has to go round and round in my head, though, that is one of the better ones.
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georgiaboy
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Almost any Taizé song is likely to become an earworm.
Thankfully, mine (today) is a cut from Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ. I was listening to it last night (a performance posted on YouTube; can't remember who it was), and the instrumental trio for harp and flutes was what I found in my brain when I awoke this morning. Nice!
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BessLane
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I have "Des Colores" running through my poor wee brain this afternoon. And since I can never remember all the words, its more like the first line, some la la la's and then the fourth line. Grrrrr
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Tea gnome
Shipmate
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"Birdseye potato wa-ffles, they're waffley versatile."
It's a tune from an advert. A very old advert. And it will not go. Am envious of some of your ear-worms.
TG
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Aravis
Shipmate
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A short Grieg piano piece.
It's nice to have something I like that doesn't get annoying too quickly.
Does anyone else get word earworms as well as music earworms? Short passages from books or things like that? I pretty much always have a tune but sometimes I have an unrelated chunk of text as well; when I reach a word I'm not sure of, it kind of sets off a warning which makes me realise the passage is there in my head, and then the ambiguous word bothers me till I can check what it is. (this often takes a long time as I don't have an iphone or Kindle or anything)
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The5thMary
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"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...
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nickel
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quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...
or the Isley Brothers maybe or did someone else cover it?
it's your thing
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Smudgie:
A facebook copycat thing at the moment is googling the number 1 from the week you were born ...
For that reason I've got The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and the Shadows ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Pancho
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quote:
Originally posted by nickel:
quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...
or the Isley Brothers maybe or did someone else cover it?
it's your thing
Salt-n-Pepa borrowed the chorus for one of their tracks. The evidence:"Shake Your Thang".
I got The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" on my mind because of that "Is Tolkien a Hack Writer?" thread.
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PD
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Today had a better start as I had 'Ye who own the faith of Jesus' going round and round my turnip. It is rather a jolly tune, though the way I felt this morning after midnight capers from the dogs, the Dead March from Saul would have been more fitting ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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ChaliceGirl
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"Situation no win...rush for a change in atmospheeeerre.."- Big Audio Dynamite
Heard it on a station that plays retro 80's/90's stuff and I've been stuck on it! Love that song!
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ChaliceGirl
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, baby give it up, give it up, baby give it up.
KC and The Sunshine Band! The King of catchy songs!
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mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
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Glen Campbell, 'Wichita Lineman'
This since a game of YouTube Jukebox played with relies in Ireland on Boxing (or, indeed, Steven's) day. House full of 9 kids - age 4-16 - and 8 adults - 40-50. Everyone gets to choose a song, and by the wonders of youtube, everyone else has to listen to it and watch the video.
Great fun and a voyage of mutual discovery for all - even the teenagers stayed engaged. But who on earth dug out the piles and piles of old music videos / live footage of obscure tracks, which must have been rotting on VHS in a million cupboards-under-the-stairs the world over, and bothered to digitise and upload it all?
(Yes, I know, it's late to be wondering why anyone buys records (CDs) anymore...)
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Aelred of Rievaulx
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Lo, star-led chiefs by
Dr Crotch
Well, it is Epiphany!
And in our cathedral we do tend to overdose on "How brighly shines" this Sunday (Chorale as introit, Cornelius Three Kings, and then the chorale as congregational hymn) so no doubt I shall be thinking of that all week as well. Grrrr.
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BessLane
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quote:
Originally posted by Aravis:
Does anyone else get word earworms as well as music earworms? Short passages from books or things like that?
Yes, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I frequently get a couple of stanzas of John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet stuck in my head. If you think folks look at you oddly when you wander around singing to yourself, you should see the looks you get when you wander around reciting poetry to yourself.
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Nenya
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"Wise men say only fools rush in..." It's been on my mind, on and off, for weeks. I thought Harry and Aliona dancing the American Smooth to it was one of the loveliest things I've seen in a while. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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St Everild
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"Myrrh is mine,
it's bitter perfume
breathes a life
of gathering gloom..." from the carol "We three Kings of Orient are"
No idea why, its not my favourite carol and I'm fed up with it...it'll hang around all week, I expect.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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My earworm now is very similar - it's the interlude between verses of 'We three kings' (Common Praise version).
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seasick
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Eat this bread and never hunger... - a communion hymn we sang this morning. I really like it but it does have a habit of getting stuck in your head.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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After being used on Dancing On Ice I can't seem to get Walk this way by Run DMC and Aerosmith out of my head.
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Deputy Verger
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I can see I am not the only one singing:
Star of wonder, star of night, star of royal beauty bright, westward leading, still proceeding... guide us to thy perfect light
over and over and over... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Pax Romana
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When I went to see Mozart's Don Giovanni earlier this year, I had snippets of that opera running through my brain for weeks. I've sung this opera in the past, so it's easy for the music to get stuck in my head.
I recently went to see Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which I also sang in the past, so snatches of that have been singing in my brain.
In between operatic earworms, I have had other musical intrusions on my consciousness, also.
Pax Romana
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Piglet
Islander
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OK, now that I've been to church and done a bit of Proper Singing™, I've got rid of Cliff Richard (no offence) and now I've got Where riches is everlastingly by Peter Warlock and the Nunc Dimittis from Sumsion in G.
That's better.
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